surrogate
英 ['sʌrəgət]***美 ['sʌrəɡɪt]
- n. 代理；代用品；遗嘱检验法官
- vt. 代理；指定某人为自己的代理人
- adj. 代理的；替代的
助记提示
1. sub- => sur- "in the place of, instead of" + rog- "ask for, propose" + -ate.
2. => Etymologically someone who has been "asked for" to take the place of another.
3. => nominate or propose an alternative candidate.
中文词源
surrogate 替代的，代孕的来自拉丁语 surrogare,替代，代替，来自 sur-,在下，向上，-rog,要求，词源同 arrogant,prorogue. 引申词义代孕的。
中文词源
- surrogate
- surrogate: [17] A surrogate is etymologically someone who has been ‘asked for’ to take the place of another. The word was borrowed from Latin surrogātus, a later form of subrogātus, the past participle of subrogāre ‘nominate an alternative candidate’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix sub-, used here in the sense ‘instead of’, and rogāre ‘ask for, propose’ (source of English interrogate, prerogative, etc).
=> interrogate, prerogative - surrogate (n.)
- early 15c., from Latin surrogatus, past participle of surrogare/subrogare "put in another's place, substitute," from assimilated form of sub "in the place of, under" (see sub-) + rogare "to ask, propose" (see rogation). Meaning "woman pregnant with the fertilized egg of another woman" is attested from 1978 (from 1972 of animals; surrogate mother in a psychological sense is from 1971). As an adjective from 1630s.
双语例句
- 1. Leningrad was the third alien city to offer him a surrogate home.
- 列宁格勒是他在异地安家的第三个外国城市。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Arms control should not be made into a surrogate for peace.
- 武器控制不应该用来替代和平。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Martin had become Howard Cosell's surrogate son.
- 马丁代为当起了霍华德·科塞尔的儿子。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. She saw him as a sort of surrogate father.
- 在她心目中，他仿佛是能替代父亲角色的人。
来自《权威词典》
- 5. The cat acted as a surrogate mum to the chicks.
- 这只貓当起了小鸡的妈妈来.
来自《简明英汉词典》
